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ISSN - Electrónico: 2661-6947 / DOI: 10.36015 • LILACS BIREME (19784); LATINDEX (20666)
INTRODUCTION: The risk of suffering a ischemic stroke is related to risk factors, the recognition and action of the patient/family is related to the educational level. Despite advances in treatment, the best way to deal with it is prevention. OBJECTIVE: To determine the level of knowledge of ischemic stroke in the non-medical population. To demonstrate the hypothesis that education improves levels of knowledge of the disease. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Population: 113 relatives of patients admitted to the Neurology Technical Unit of the Carlos Andrade Marín Specialty Hospital during the period March - September 2022. Single cohort analytical longitudinal study. Inclusion criteria: family members in direct care/monitoring of patients admitted with clinical/ imaging diagnosis of acute ischemic stroke, signature of informed consent. Exclusion
criteria: non-acceptance to participate. Each participant was given a survey at admission, then given an educational document about the topic, and then the survey was administered again. The Mcnemar Chi-square test was used for hypothesis testing and the percentages of frequencies were analyzed with percentage difference. RESULTS: The most known symptom was language impairment, with 44,2% of the po-
pulation studied being aware of it, 25,7% suspected stroke, 87,6% considered it as an emergency, 31% knew of the existence of risk factors, the percentage difference after the educational intervention increased by: 76,4% in the need to call an ambulance, by more than 47,3% and 111,1% in knowledge of symptoms and risk factors, respectively. The name of the most known stroke was ́stroke ́. DISCUSSION: The knowledge
to recognize a stroke is low, the knowledge to recognize it as an emergency is high, the educational intervention improved notably this knowledge as well as published literature. CONCLUSION: The hypothesis that it is necessary to increase knowledge of stroke and awareness of how to proceed when faced with this disease was proven.
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